40th ♫ | a coward revels in her emptiness

[mytarget]

OC VOICETEST FOR ELLE BRANWEN

Elle is the resident shady-ass bard and big witch hat owner of the Blackest Night Guild, a once legendary adventuring guild that slowly slid into obscurity and general not-doing-much-of-anything-ness when the original party members disappeared after a titanic battle, leaving tiny fifteen years old Elle all by herself (well, she had a friend, but The Drama) to run Blackest Night in their absence, waiting for their return. Ten years later and Elle is now catty, bitter and mostly unmotivated to do much of anything until the guild receives a shutdown notice and she springs into action, refusing to let Blackest Night shut down without a fight. Cliffnotes/quick overview for meme purposes below:

Elle IS:

• Visibly in her early/mid 20's, with the kind of lean, toned build of someone who does a lot of physical outdoors activity. She has blue eyes and long blonde hair, some strands of which she has braided and pinned back out of her face. She dresses mostly in black and white with occasional gold accents and of course, she has an Enormous Fucking Witch Hat. Her aesthetic overall is kind of witchy, even though she's a bard? Don't worry about it. Also she's a total babe but she's a Claire OC so that's a given.
  
• She Is A Bard, so that's her magic and combat deal. Instead of just music or dancing or w/e being her Bardly Domain, her niche is the idea of performance in general. She's particularly good at singing and dancing, though, and plays a lute. She's also uhhhh really good at lying.
  
• Grouchy, crabby, sassy 100% of the time. i Will keep saying "she's just Fantasy Gina Linetti" until i come up with a better way of getting across her general vibes
  
• Actually Super Depressed and just generally dealing very badly with losing the people who were the only family she's ever known and spending ten years waiting around for their return. A lot of her acting out and general nastiness is a combo of "negative attention still means people are paying attention to me" and "if i don't get attached to people they can't leave and crush my heart to pieces again"
  
• Hailing from a setting blatantly ripped off from D&D, so her experiences of tech and culture are influenced by that general fantasy time period.
  
• Book smart, educated and has the potential to be well-spoken, she's just a horrible contrary crabbypants


Elle IS NOT:

• Familiar with modern day culture or technology
  
• Particularly nice or friendly to the average person. She comes off as pretty rude and standoffish, though it's worth noting that she's never mean to kids
  
• Particularly nice to uhhhh anyone who isn't Ollie, really

Like my usual CMOs, I'm totally happy to roll with assumed CR, AUs, setting transplants, BASICALLY ANYTHING YA LITTLE HEART MAY DESIRE, I'M HERE TO GET ON WITH IT

PROMPTS:

Random Scenario Meme Prompts
Jamjar CR Meme Prompts
Murdergame Scenario Meme Prompts

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during the journey post closure

[outleander]

[The fight isn't going well.

It's strange- the beasts in this area are never this populous, even during their breeding season. They never fight this wildly, as if they're rabid. Never fight to the last body.

Oleander curses and joins the fray for the first time- there's no choice, as some of the creatures are breaking past the front line fighters... so he lunges, sinking his lance into one of the boar-like monsters' spine in one sharp movement]

Damn it- we have to run, there's too many!

[survivorsguild]

And turn our backs on these freaks?! Are you tapped in the head?

[ FURIOUS AND DISTRESSED LUTE STRUMMING. She's laying down spells and heals where she can, but it's a bit hard to get anything helpful going when she's also having to make sure she doesn't get extremely gored. ]

What the hell has them so worked up, anyways?!

[outleander]

[Tapped? Perhaps. But honestly eith his polearm his thought was that he could keep them back long enough to protect the casters' backs as they fled. Laurent and Cale would be able to not hold back without worry that way- and he doubted anything could truly kill Bart.

It would be messy, but... well if he explained it like that he knows she'd refuse. So he doesn't bother]

Tch... I can't say. This is completely unnatural for them...

[survivorsguild]

Great! Love it! Feeling really reassured about our long-term future prospects here!

[ Of course, she says that, but the likelihood of them having short-term future prospects let alone long ones is rapidly diminishing. Her fingers pluck out a staccato of off-key notes that don't quite make a song – she's too panicked for that – and she grits her teeth, wracking her brains for anything they can do. ]

Look, if we're getting out of here, we need a distraction! What'll work on these things?

[outleander]

[The painful note inspires him- might even be Bardic Insperation]

Elle! Do you know any spells that inspire fear?!

[survivorsguild]

One or two, I guess?! But I've never tossed 'em out against a mob this big!

[ But she's strumming furiously regardless. It's... hard to tell if this is a nervous tic or Elle actually attempting to do her job. ]